Category Archives: Mobile Development

Android Apps for Absolute Beginners

Posted on June 23, 2011 by admin| Leave a comment
Android Apps for Absolute Beginners

Android Apps for Absolute Beginners

Anybody can start building simple apps for the Android platform, and this book will show you how. Android Apps for Absolute Beginners takes you through the process of getting your first Android applications up and running using plain English and practical examples. It cuts through the fog of jargon and mystery that surrounds Android application development, and gives you simple, step-by-step instructions to get you started.

  • Teaches Android application development in language anyone can understand, giving you the best possible start in Android development
  • Provides simple, step-by-step examples that make learning easy, allowing you to pick up the concepts without fuss
  • Offers clear code descriptions and layout so that you can get your apps running as soon as possible Continue reading →

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Professional Mobile Web Development with WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal

Posted on June 16, 2011 by admin| Leave a comment
Professional Mobile Web Development with WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal

Professional Mobile Web Development with WordPress, Joomla! and Drupal

How to develop powerful mobile Web sites using popular content management systems (CMS)

Mobile is the hottest thing going—and developing content for mobile devices and browsers is even hotter than that.  This book is your guide to it all—how to design, build, and deploy sites, blogs and services that will work brilliantly for mobile users. You’ll learn about the state-of-the-art of mobile web development, the tools available to use, and the best practices for creating compelling mobile user interfaces. Then, using the most popular content management systems, WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal, you’ll learn how to building world-class mobile web sites from existing platforms and content..  The book walks you through each platform, including how to use third-party plug-ins and themes, explains the strategies for writing your own logic, how to switch between mobile and desktop, and much more.

  • Provides a technical review of the mobile landscape and acquaints you with  a range of mobile devices and networks
  • Covers topics common to all platforms, including site topologies, switching between mobile and desktop, common user interface patterns, and more
  • Walks you through each content management platform—WordPress, Joomla!, and Drupal—first focusing on standard plug-ins and themes and then exploring advanced techniques for writing your own themes or logic
  • Explains the best practices for testing, deploying, and integrating a mobile web site
  • Also explores analytics, m-commerce, and SEO techniques for mobile[ad code=3 align=center] Continue reading →

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Mobile Design for iPhone and iPad

Posted on March 23, 2011 by admin| 1 Comment
Mobile Design for iPhone and iPad

Mobile Design for iPhone and iPad

This e-book presents articles on professional mobile design for the iPhone and iPad, including studies of trends in mobile design and guidelines for the development of mobile web pages. These articles are mostly a selection of the best from Smashing Magazine in 2009 and 2010 dealing with mobile design for the iPhone and iPad plus an exclusive 90-page study about mobile web design trends. They have been carefully edited and are available as a PDF, ePub and Mobipocket.[ad code=1 align=center] Continue reading →

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Mobile Web Development: Building mobile websites, SMS and MMS messaging, mobile payments, and automated voice call systems with XHTML MP, WCSS, and mobile AJAX

Posted on December 9, 2010 by admin| Leave a comment

00189baame Mobile Web Development: Building mobile websites, SMS and MMS messaging, mobile payments, and automated voice call systems with XHTML MP, WCSS, and mobile AJAX As more users access the Web from their phones and other handhelds, web developers need to learn techniques for targeting these new devices. Sites such as Twitter, Facebook, and Google target mobiles with their services and products. Companies use mobile services to provide staff access to their applications while away from a computer.

This book is a complete, practical guide to writing mobilewebsites and applications. You will learn how to createmobile-friendly websites, adapt your content to the capabilities of different devices, save bandwidth with compression, and create server-side logic that integrates with a mobile front end. You will also see other methods for integrating your web application with mobile technology: sending and receiving MMS and SMS messages, accepting mobile payments, and working with voice calls to provide spoken interaction.

The book illustrates every technique with practical examples, showing how to use these development methods in the real world. Along the way we show how an example pizza delivery business can use these methods to open up to the  web.
Whether you want to provide customers and users of your public website with new ways to access your services, or build applications so that staff can stay up to date while on the road, this book will show you all you need to build a powerful mobile presence. Continue reading →

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Sams Teach Yourself Android Application Development in 24 Hours

Posted on July 30, 2010 by admin| Leave a comment
Android Application Development

Android Application Development

Full Color! In just 24 sessions of one hour or less, learn how to build powerful applications for the world’s first complete, open, and free mobile platform: Android. Using this book’s straightforward, step-by-step approach, you’ll build a fully-featured Android application from the ground up and master the skills you need to design, develop, test, and publish powerful applications. Each lesson builds on what you’ve already learned, giving you a rock-solid foundation for real-world success! Continue reading →

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Programming the Mobile Web : Learning web skills to move into mobile development

Posted on July 28, 2010 by admin| Leave a comment
Programming the Mobile Web

Programming the Mobile Web

Today’s market for mobile apps goes beyond the iPhone to include BlackBerry, Nokia, Windows Phone, and smartphones powered by Android, webOS, and other platforms. If you’re an experienced web developer, this book shows you how to build a standard app core that you can extend to work with specific devices. You’ll learn the particulars and pitfalls of building mobile apps with HTML, CSS, and other standard web tools. Continue reading →

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Hello, Android: Introducing Google’s Mobile Development Platform, 3rd Edition

Posted on July 23, 2010 by admin| 1 Comment
Hello, Android: Introducing Google’s Mobile Development Platform, 3rd Edition

Hello, Android: Introducing Google’s Mobile Development Platform, 3rd Edition

Android is a software toolkit for mobile phones, created by Google and the Open Handset Alliance. It’s inside millions of cell phones and other mobile devices, making Android a major platform for application developers. That could be your own program running on all those devices.

Within minutes, Hello, Android will get you started creating your first working application: Android’s version of “Hello, World.” From there, you’ll build up a more substantial example: an Android Sudoku game. By gradually adding features to the game, you’ll learn the basics of Android programming. Continue reading →

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